Calendar

Donghia Designer-in-Residence Lecture by Xavier Vendrell at MOCA



02/08/12
07:30pm - 09:00pm
Lecture, Reading, Film, Conference


Email This Event     Send Event to My Calendar


 

The 2011-2012 DONGHIA DESIGNER-IN-RESIDENCE LECTURE

7:30 PM Lecture  9:00 PM Reception

Ahmanson Auditorium, THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, 250 S GRAND AVE, L.A.  90012
Parking and Directions

 

 

Bookmark and Share

XAVIER VENDRELL is an architect and founder of Xavier Vendrell Studio, Chicago/Barcelona, a collaborative practice that engages a wide range of disciplines and scales including urban design, landscape architecture, architecture, interiors and exhibition design. Mr. Vendrell’s work has been recognized with many awards including First Prize Competition Fontsanta Park, Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, Barcelona; First Prize Competition for Public Housing in Besalu, Spain, Institut Catala del Sol; the FAD Award of Architecture for the Riumar School, Deltebre, Tarragon and an AIA Chicago Interior Architecture Award, Citation of Merit, among others. His work has been included in several exhibitions including Territories: Contemporary European Landscape Design at Harvard University and featured in the solo exhibition, Xavier Vendrell: Retrospective Thoughts On Work In Progress at the Graham Foundation, Chicago. Most recently Xavier Vendrell Studio has been chosen as one of eleven teams (including Zaha Hadid’s and Rem Koolhaas’s firms) that will take part in phase two of Chicago Navy Pier’s international search for a team to redesign its public spaces. Mr. Vendrell is a Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago and also travels to Alabama once each month to serve as a Consultant to The Rural Studio.

This lecture was organized by the Department of Architecture/Landscape/Interiors Otis College of Art and Design and made possible through a generous donation from the Angelo Donghia Foundation. The lecture is free and open to the public. Self parking is recommended at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, located one block north of the museum on Grand Avenue. Parking is a flat rate of $9/car after 4:30 PM.

The ANGELO DONGHIA FOUNDATION, INC., a privately held not-for-profit organization created under the will of the late Angelo Donghia, provides support for two distinct fields: the advancement of education in the field of interior design and initiatives pertaining to the discovery of causes of AIDS and its related diseases, and their methods of treatment.

Architecture/Landscape/Interiors offers a synthetic curriculum of the spatial design fields. For information about the lecture or department, please call 310.665.6867 or email archscapes@otis.edu

Image:
Rural Studio Exhibition in COAC, Barcelona, Spain
Exhibition Design by Xavier Vendrell Studio
Photography by Monica Rosello